Comments (0) We’ve had better weather (understatement !) but everyone seemed to enjoy their courses even though they were soaked to the skin. Thanks to Rob for helping on the day and to all the competitors for coming along and making it worthwhile.
Results HERE
A handful of Reivers travelled over the border to Ray Demesne in Northumberland for the colour-coded event there. We were last there a couple of years ago for the Northern Championships – this time the planner chose to all but ignore the wooded areas and concentrate largely on the moorland sections. Runnability was varied with some challenging heather to negotiate in areas, so finding freshly burnt areas and young short heather on your chosen route was a real bonus !
John Tullie overcame all the younger opposition and won a competitive Brown course with Barry Veitch just six minutes behind in 7th place. I was pleased to finish 3rd on the Blue course with Douglas Henderson just 3 minutes behind in 6th place.
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The inaugural Roxburgh Reivers Club Night took place on Monday evening at The Barns Community Centre. There were 16 participants and an enjoyable couple of hours passed quickly.
Ian laid on some training, Robin laid on some discussion of Saturday’s event and Rob laid on some tea, juice and biscuits.
Ian’s technique training exercise gave the opportunity to practise map orientation and thumbing skills while also giving some folk the opportunity to get a little more out of puff than they normally might do on a Monday evening.
Robin also led a discussion of route choices of the courses at Elibank on Saturday, making very good use of his impressive digital projector to project the map and courses onto the wall of the centre.
Members were kept refreshed with good supplies of tea, juice and biscuits. Rob’s flapjacks weren’t quite up to Caroline Tullie standard but the tin was nearly empty by the end of the evening and Lindsey’s large box of chocolates were completely devoured!
I hope all those who came along enjoyed their evening. Any feedback and suggestions for activities for further club evenings will be gratefully received.
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Apologies for the hiccup with some splits – a couple of controls (106 and 118) hadn’t been properly programmed for British Summer Time and it appears they also weren’t exactly 60 minutes out. Each unit has a memory so I’ve been able to adjust the split times accordingly.
Robin adds:
I thought this event might not happen, as the woods were snowbound till 10 days ago, there was a change of landowner low down the hill and there was a wildlife issue, which I’m not supposed to tell you about.
So it was good to see such animated disussion at the finish, and well done to everyone for coping with the area’s technicalities so well. Andrew and Amjad – those two hills were legally close together, one control “On top” the other “North side”, but easy to confuse, especially if running head to head.
Hope you can make it to Tweedbank on Monday – I’ll bring a projector to show the courses, and we can discuss different ways of tackling them.
Thanks for coming, and especially thanks to Rob and Lindsey for their help.
Comments Off We’re having a social evening at Tweedbank this coming Monday evening. Open to all local orienteers, not just members. Details via the link to the right hand side.
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